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Waiting for the training to begin, Jo Anna Cartwright, who manages the rural public bus system in northern Arkansas, said she had not yet encountered any terrorists in her job, as far as she knew. "We got a terroristic phone call the other day," she said, "but it turned out it was just the boyfriend of an employee." Her bus drivers pay special attention to a gentleman from Afghanistan who recently married a regular rider, she said. Cartwright had come to the training to learn what else she could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyes And Ears Of The Nation | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

...Plan for Prosperity In "The Face of Reform" [May 31], you correctly stated that India's new Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, faces immense challenges in his bid to improve the lot of India's rural poor. The government's efforts are diluted because of the vast issues they address. My humble suggestion is for the government to focus on four points: 1) limiting the birthrate in the rural population to just two children per family; 2) improving literacy among the rural population, particularly children; 3) promoting hygienic living habits; 4) increasing employment and business opportunities to supplement the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

...true subject of a collection that begins in 1925 and ends in 1955. Here even the most whimsical of images, Eric Thake's Happy Landing, 1939, speaks of the turbines of warfare. It was war that brought German ?migr? Hein Heckroth to Australia. His brief detention in rural N.S.W. resulted in one of the show's loveliest works, Surreal Landscape, 1940, in which one of Max Ernst's birds seems to have settled on the sun-bleached scrub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Kind of Dreaming | 6/22/2004 | See Source »

...Hodges and writer Trevor Preston care to make clear, a car dealer (a particularly malevolent Malcolm McDowell) and two henchmen abduct and brutally rape him. Davey commits suicide, and his terminally taciturn brother Will (Clive Owen, the star of Hodges' Croupier) returns to the criminal life from a rough rural retirement to avenge the kid's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Stylish Revenge | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

...opinion on an issue that is the talk of the international cricket fraternity: Is Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan, a slow bowler with the uncommon ability to spin a ball like a top, a "chucker"? Howard didn't hesitate: "Yes," he told supporters at a political function in rural Australia last month. Howard had, in effect, labeled the most successful bowler in cricket history and an icon in cricket-mad Sri Lanka, a cheat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Howard's Bad Spin | 6/14/2004 | See Source »

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